Matthew's Gospel: Principles Of Christianity

In Matthew’s Gospel, specifically in Chapter 7, we can see one of the most fundamental principles of Christianity being shared. This Gospel, intended for early Christians from the first centuries, emphasizes on the topic of judging others. Its purpose at the time, was to bring a new point of view about judging other people that may share our same flaws. The main concept in this chapter is not to judge others, so that you will not be judged. In the excerpt, the main example is: ‘’why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?’’, in other words, why do you look for flaws on others, without first looking at yours. This was a way to promote and characterize Christians as people that did not judged others, in other words, a community that accepted everyone as brothers and sisters that shared one Father. …show more content…
It certainly attracts people that fell like their former or current religions were/are too strict and judge their own members if they are not following certain established dogmas. Nevertheless, this same principle has caused controversy these recent centuries among Christianity denominations. For example, Evangelism started as a campaign that was against some elements in Catholicism that seemed non-biblical. So we can say that evangelism started out as a form of criticism to Catholicism. By evangelicals criticizing Catholicism, they were also in some way criticizing or judging Catholic’s. So the moral of Matthew’s Gospel, was not being applied among the people that should had mostly applied it, the Christians. There are a lot of Christian denominations, and each, often tries to attract Christians from other denominations by pointing out things on the bible that don’t go along with the other